Name-plate for mail-boxes.



E. F. TOOMY & W. .I. LAVERY.

NAME PLATE FOR MAIL BOXES. APPLICATION FILED APR- 16, 1914.

1,146,907. Patented July 20, 1915.

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NAME-PLATE FOR MAIL-BOXES.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 20, 1915.

To all whom it may concern r I Be it known that we, EDMOND F. TooMY and lVILLIAM J. LAVERY, cltizens of the United S ates, and residing at Jersey City,

in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Name-Plates for Mail-- This invention relates toname plates for" mail boxes, and the object thereof is toprovide an improved device of tl1is:class which may be used on the door of a dwelling or other building, or in the entrance way, vestibule, or halls of apartment houses or other buildings, and the invention is fully disclosed in the following specification of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of our improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a front view of our improved name plate ;Fig. 2 a cross section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;Fig. 3 a section on the line 38 of Fig. 1, and on an enlarged scale, and Fig. 4 a detail view showing a part of the name plate detached, or a blank from which said part is formed.

In carrying our invention into effect, we provlde a plate a preferably of brass and provided, preferably in the top portion thereof, with a large rectangular opening a closed by a transparent panel 5, preferably of glass. The walls of the opening a in the plate a, are beveled forwardly and inwardly, and the walls of the panel I) are correspondingly beveled, and said panel is inserted from the back of said plate, and is held therein by any means, or in any manner. The plate a is provided on the back thereof and on the opposite sides of the opening a?, and in a transverse line substantially bisecting said opening with studs a to which are secured, by means of screws 0, a transverse plate (Z formed from a blank d shown in Fig. l The top edge of the plate (Z is provided centrally thereof with a semicircular recess d and at the bottom edge thereof with forwardly directed lugs d which bear on the panel 5 and which are formed from lugs 03 at the bottom edge of the blank CF. The central part of the plate (1 is set inwardly or forwardly parallel with the panel I) forming L-shaped angle portions d through which the screws 0 are passed, and said plate is also preferably provided on the front face thereof with longitudinal grooves (Z forming corresponding longitudinal ribs on the back thereof, the object of this construction being to strengthen said plate, if the latter be stamped from sheet metal, but it will be understood that the plate (Z, as shown in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive, may be cast if desired, and the exact form thereof, as herein shown and described, is not an essential feature.

Between the plate (Z and the panel I) is a card space 0 open at the top and into which a name card f may be dropped, and the object of the recesses (Z in the top of said plate is to facilitate the removal of said card from said space when necessary, and the bot tom edge of the plate (Z is provided preferably centrally thereof, with a downwardly extending member (Z on which is placed, in the construction shown, the words 4th floor right,

The name plate shown in the drawing is intended for use in an apartment house, and the words lth floor right, indicate that the party whose name is on the card f, oc-

cupies the apartment at the right of the hall on the fourth floor, but it will be understood that the legend 4th floor right on the name plate, as shown, may be changed to indicate any apartment in the building. It will alsobe understood that our invention is not limited to buildings having different apartments on each floor, or to buildings having separate apartments of any kind or location, and the use of the part (Z of the plate (Z is not an essential feature of our invention, and said part may or may not be employed, according to circumstances.

A name plate of the class specified, when used in the vestibule, entrance way, or ballway of anapartment or other building, is usually hinged at the top and locked at the bottom so that it may be swung forwardly to afford access to the box, back of the plate, but thesefeatures form no part of our invention and are not shown and described, and if desired, our improved name plate may be used on the door, or any part of a building and is not necessarily used in connection with a mail box.

The forwardly directed lugs 01* at the hottom of the plate 01 are intended primarily to close the bottom of the card space 6 so that a card, when dropped thereinto will be held therein, but the bottom of said space may be closed if desired, or partially so in any way, and, with the construction shown, the said lugs ci may also serve to hold the panel 6 in place, or aid in holding said panel in place, and other changes in and modifications of the construction herein described may be made, Within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of our invention, or sacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A name plate provided with an open ing closed by a transparent panel inserted from the rear side thereof, said plate being provided back of said panel with a member secured to the plate, having a portion spaced from the glass to form a receptacle for a card, and portions extending forwardly from the lower edge of said memher, to bear against the transparent panel Copies of this patent maybe obtained for five cents each, by addressing and hold the same in place and also support the lower edge of said card.

. 2. A name plate formail boxes, said plate being provided with an opening closed by a name appears on the card inserted into said a card space.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention We have signed our names in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 15th day of April 1914.

EDMOND F. TOOMY.

WILLIAM J; 'LAVERY.

Witnesses: i

C. MULREANY, S. Azvmmws.

the Commissioner of Patents Washingtoml). C. r 

